COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS OF HAPPINESS METAPHORS IN
ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN
COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS OF HAPPINESS METAPHORS IN
ENGLISH AND ROMANIAN
Author(s): Corina DobrotăSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning
Published by: Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association
Keywords: conceptualization; metaphorization; equivalence; translatability;
Summary/Abstract: Happiness, seen as one of the six universal basic human emotions, seems to be conceptualized, accordingto Kövecses (2000) in fundamentally similar terms across languages. On the other hand, the Sapir-Whorfhypothesis favours the idea according to which semantic structure conditions the non-linguisticknowledge, thus resulting in a different perception of the surrounding reality, which includes theperception of emotions. The present paper aims at examining the conceptual schemes at the basis ofhappiness metaphors in English and Romanian, and the (non) equivalent correspondences that may beobserved between the two, so as to verify the validity of such claims.
- Issue Year: 3/2019
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 272-278
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English
